Most Read Led by Jasmyne Cannick’s “White Feminists Don’t Care about Black Women”

This week’s top 10 most read was led by Jasmyne Cannick’s White Feminists Don’t Care about Black Women, which points out how major liberal feminist organizations, such as the National Organization of Women, and the conservative Concerned Women for America were slow in chastizing local Los Angeles radio hosts when they called Whitney Houston a “crack ho” shortly after her death.

These feminist organizations and other liberal bastions were much quicker to rush to Georgetown Law School student Sandra Fluke’s defense when she was repeatedly attacked by Rush Limbaugh, his defenders, and clones, pointing to a possible racial disparity. While feminists rose to disagree, Jasmyne’s perspective about racial bias in the media and the progressive community is clearly shared by others in the Black community.

Dick Price & Sharon Kyle

LA Progressive Most Read Articles
March 10-17, 2012

1. White Feminists Don’t Care about Black Women. Jasmyne Cannick: Why have these two female powerhouse organizations been missing in action on the two Los Angeles talk radio hosts who offended women, particularly Black women, when they called Whitney Houston a “crack ho” three days after her death?

2. Controlling Women’s Bodies. Ruth Rosen: What neither side wants to say is that this is a counter-reformation, an attempt to return women to the early 1960s, before birth control pill existed and the Supreme Court established the right of contraception in the United States.

3. Occupy and Organized Labor: Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win. Mark Naison: If I dare to dream, I can see where this collaboration between Occupy and Labor might lead—to the unionization of Wal-Mart, to the unionization of McDonalds, to the unionization of financial services workers in the nation’s largest banks.

4. Ending California’s Death Penalty to Solve More Crimes. Jeanne Woodford: By replacing the death penalty, California will free up much-needed funds for DNA testing and other vital tools needed to tackle the shocking 46% of murder and 56% of reported rape cases that remain unsolved in our state every year, on average.

8. The GOP’s Anti-Woman Campaign. Jim Rhodes: Americans have been mentally conditioned for this time in history by constant Republican anti-women’s rhetoric over the past two decades carefully crafted within fundamentalist Christian dogma.

9. We’re Not Working Out Issues Anymore. Bob Letcher: Please notice that “We’re not working out issues any more” is *not* listed among the top seven issues in Barack Obama’s re-election plans.

10. Romney Ignites Democratic Base. Randy Shaw: Barack Obama’s campaign has lots of money, but there is no way it could match Romney’s success at getting this base to align with the President.

About Dick and Sharon

As a husband and wife team, Sharon Kyle and Dick Price publish several print and online newsletters on political and social justice issues. Sharon serves as Publisher for Dick & Sharon's LA Progressive and Dick serves as Editor.

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